Wine Hiking
When I moved to Heidelberg area I heard this word for the very first time. I was aware of hiking before and also did many hikes around but wine hike ...hmmm Whats that?
Well in wine region these hikes take place and its very common and popular events in wine region.
Basically when summer starts and weather gets better there are different wine festivals and wine hikes. There is specified route through vineyards and at different distances wine stands from different wineries in that area. People walk through this route and taste wines at different wine stands and then go to the next stand. There is also some food available and sometimes even benches to sit or some standing tables. This is really fun activity to do with a group. The hike normally 8-10 km. long.
Normally on 1st of May me and friends do our very first wine hike of the year from Bensheim or zwingenberg . This is actually a very big hike almost 21 km. but of course we never manage to do that big round. After that the season starts for us and we do almost all possible win hikes in our region . This year I even managed to go to Vienna for a day of wine hike . That was also really beautiful . Only thing is there they say different things like in Germany we say wine schorle but in Vienna they call it wine spritzer and so on but that does not come in between drinking and having fun 😆
At some hikes you even get special small glasses to try wines and you can keep going with that glass to different wine stands. Some people even collect these glasses as souvenirs for each year. I have also collected few such glasses till now .
A day in the nature with friends, walking and drinking what is not to like in that 😊
If you are not a wine lover , no problem you can still join the hike and drink some non-alcoholic drinks. no one is judging 😏
Important is to have a nice walk, meeting friends and having fun.
Cheers 👍
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